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Teleological Ethics
Near the end of World War II, the Americans readied a weapon of horrific proportions, the atomic bomb. The urgent development of the bomb had occurred in deep secrecy because of fear that an Axis member would succeed in delivering the weapon first.
A land invasion of Japan seemed inevitable and its cost was estimated at 1,000,000 American casualties, plus countless military and civilian Japanese. The recent invasions of Okinawa and Iwo Jima had proven that the Japanese would fight to the last man, even using kamikazee attacks. Despite their inevitable defeat, they seemed ready to ferociously defend their homeland.
President Harry Truman was notified that the atomic bomb was tested and ready. He alone faced the decision of whether to drop the bomb, with high casualties, or launch a land invasion of Japan, with even higher casualties. We know that he made the choice to bomb Hiroshima and then Nagasaki.
Truman's strategy worked and the war was over. However, the cost was high and the impact on the world was indelible. Over 200,000 Japanese citizens were killed and the effects lingered for half a century. Recently, on the sixtieth anniversary of the bombings, numerous publications castigated the U.S. decision to use atomic weapons. The euphoria that swept America in August 1946 was apparently being replaced with shame and reproach. What is the cause of this curious shift in response to the same event? Was the basis for the decision to drop the bomb faulty? Was it a mistake to do so; and if so, was it not a mistake of epic proportions? If it was wrong to drop the bomb, why was there an absence of protest at the time? Had basic values, the sense of what is right and what is wrong, changed or had the basis for making judgment changed?
In the historical perspective, one can understand Truman's thinking. His decision to drop the bomb resulted in the saving of many American lives....
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